D. V. GRIFFITHS, PhD, DSc, PE, CEng, FICE, D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE
CONTACT INFORMATION:
D. V. Griffiths (Vaughan Griffiths)
Professor of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1500 Illinois Street
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401,
U.S.A.
Tel: (303)-273-3669
Fax: (303)-273-3413
Office: Coolbaugh Hall CO 252
Email: d.v.griffiths@mines.edu
EDUCATION:
PROFESSIONAL:
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Distinguished Member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
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Diplomate, Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE)
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Fellow of the
Institution of Civil Engineers (London)
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P.E.(Colorado), Reg.No. 32895, (Link to Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors)
- British
Chartered Engineer,
C.Eng., Reg. No. 346110
- Board of Direction
ASCE (Region 7), 2010-2013
- President,
ASCE, Colorado Section, 2000-2001
RESEARCH FOCUS:
- Risk assessment and finite element modeling in geotechnical engineering
OTHER AFFILIATIONS:
- Honorary Member of the Senior Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford, UK (2019-2025)
- Honorary Professor, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2021-2023)
- 111 Professor appointment at Chang'an University, Xi'an, Ministry of Education, PRC (2018-2022)
- Partner Investigator (2011-2018),
Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering,
University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
TEACHING:
- CEEN 498/598: Independent Study: Available all semesters. See me for more information.
- CEEN 410/510: Advanced Soil Mechanics, Fall 2022.
CEEN410-510
- CEEN 405/505: Numerical Methods for Engineers, Fall 2022
CEEN 405-505
The course can be used as an undergraduate Civil, Environmental, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Elective
- CEEN 419/519: Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering, Fall 2023.
- CEEN 410/510: Advanced Soil Mechanics, Fall 2023.
JOURNAL EDITING:
CHAIRING OF CONFERENCES:
INVITED LECTURES:
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Suzanne Lacasse Lecture. Delivered at APSSRA 2016, Shanghai, PRC, May 28-30, 2016
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Keynote Lecture: XV Colombian Geotechnical Congress Cartagena, Colombia, Oct 4-8, 2016
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H. Bolton Seed Medal Lecture. Delivered at Geo-Congress 2017, Orlando, FL, March 13th 2017
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Cross Canada Lecture Tour (11-lectures), April 10th thru April 21st 2017
- San Francisco ASCE Younger Members Forum, June 15th 2017
- Oregon Geo-Institute Chapter, Portland OR, 6th September 2017
- Hawaii Geo-Institute Chapter, November 16th 2017
- Seattle Geo-Institute Chapter, January 25th 2018
- Education Seminar - Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Geotechnical Practice, Orange County Geo-Institute Chapter, Irvine CA , February 9th 2018
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Pittsburgh Geo-Institute Chapter, February 15th 2018
- Central Ohio Geo-Institute Chapter, Columbus OH, April 19th 2018
- Florida West Coast Geo-Institute Chapter, Tampa FL, April 26th 2018
- University of South Florida, Civil and Environmental Eng. Dept., Tampa FL, April 26th 2018
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Invited Panelist at CARe2018HK Conference on Climate Change (26:43), Adaption and Resilience, Hong Kong Oct 27-29, 2018
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Keynote Lecture: EXPOIngenieria World Congress 2018, Medellin, Colombia, Oct 2018
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Keynote Lecture: 1st International Symposium on Rock Mechanics Applications, Hermosillo, Mexico, Nov 2018
- UK Invited Lectures: Imperial College, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Durham, March-June 2019
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Keynote Lecture: 13th Chinese National Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Conference, Tianjin, July 2019
- Invited Lecture: Chang'an University, Xi'an, July 2019
- Invited Lecture: Hohai University, Nanjing, July 2019
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Keynote Lecture: 4th ACCM, Hobart, Australia, November 2019
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T.H. Wu Distinguished Lecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, Feb 26th 2021
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Wilson Tang Lecture, 8th ISGSR Conference, Newcastle NSW, Dec 15th 2022
UPCOMING/RECENT SHORT COURSES AND WORKSHOPS:
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Statistics and Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering - The Fundamentals (1-day)
National Geotechnical Consulting, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 16, 2016.
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Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
XVCCG/IICIERB-ISRM, Cartagena, Colombia, Oct 6, 2016.
- Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (5-days)
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo, Norway, May 8-12, 2017.
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Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
Centre for Geotechnical Science and Engineering (CGSE), University of Newcastle, Australia, July 17, 2017.
- Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
Tongji (Jialong Campus), PRC, 7th January 2018.
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Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 6th August, 2018.
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Quantitative Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (1.5-day)
Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria, Julio Garavito, Bogota, Colombia, 12/13th October, 2018.
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Quantitative Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
Pells, Sullivan and Meynink, Sydney, Australia, 12th December, 2018.
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Introduction to Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering
Invited Instructor: Workshop on "Rock Mechanics for the Future" held at NE University, Shenyang City, August 2019.
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Field data collection, monitoring, and modelling of large landslides
Invited Instructor: Summer hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Geo-hazard Prevention and Geo-environment Protection SKLGP
at Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT), 2019-2022
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Quantitative Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
Pittsburgh PA, Geo-Institute Chapter, April 12th 2022.
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Quantitative Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
8th ISGSR, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, December 14th 2022.
- Quantitative Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
Perth, Australia for the WA Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS), Aug 2020 (postponed, TBA).
- Slope Stability (1-day)
Three courses in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland for the New Zealand Geotechnical Society, May/June 2020
(postponed, TBA).
- Quantitative Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (1-day)
Durham and Glasgow UK for the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) Oct 2020 (postponed, TBA).
ON-LINE SHORT COURSES:
PUBLICATIONS:
GOOGLE ANALYTICS:
TEXTBOOKS (and associated software):
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"Programming the finite element method"
I.M. Smith, D.V. Griffiths and L. Margetts, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2014
"Link to programs"
"Programming the finite element method"
I.M. Smith and D.V. Griffiths, 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2004, reprinted 2006,2008
"Link to programs"
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"Numerical methods for engineers",
D.V. Griffiths and I.M. Smith, 2nd ed., Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2006
"Link to programs"
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"Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering",
Gordon A. Fenton and D.V. Griffiths, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
"Link to programs"
FE SLOPE STABILITY PROGRAM:
USE OF SOFTWARE IN PROPRIETARY CODES:
OTHER SOFTWARE:
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